On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:05:40 -0700, graham > wrote:

>On 2018-01-29 8:31 AM, S Viemeister wrote:
>> On 1/29/2018 9:31 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>> I have never heard of that. We always called them 'towels'.
>>>
>>> Have we ever called them 'diapers'?
>>>
>> I've never heard sanitary towels called diapers.
>AIUI, STs were invented during WW1 by nurses near the front.
>My father told me that in our grandmothers' time, before STs became
>widely available and cheap enough, women washed their diapers every month.

I haven't heard them called STs since boarding school

There was the interesting case of Lizzie Borden. I read a book that
investigated her case very carefully and it was determined she
couldn't/wouldn't defend herself properly because she would not allow
the lawyer to say she had been in the basement at the time her father
and stepmother were hacked up - washing her diapers.